I've actually thought about other languages, but can't really get
past the whole tourist-y sort of "what time is it" phrases. If anyone
can think of something that would be a cultural idiom in said
language (please provide an explanation/translation as well), I'd
be more than happy to include. Also bear in mind that I'm only
doing a latin alphabet.

I don't know if this interests you, but these expressions are very idiomatic. The German translates to: How many clock is it?
The Spanish ("Quanto ora es?" now that I think about it) becomes "How many hour is (it)?

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

I'm not looking for ways to ask, "what time is it?". I'm looking for ways
to answer it. So when I mentioned cultural idioms, I was looking more
for things like the English, "o-dark-thirty". Makes no real sense were it
transliterated into another language.

I am no master of any language other than English (and even that's
questionable). The closest I can think of would be the previous suggestion
of "auld lang syne". Transliterated, it's awkward and near meaningless,
but the sense of it is "days long past" or "long long ago".

"Halb sechs." (Which actually means 5:30, not 6:30.)
A freckle past a hair. (Childhood when you didn't have a watch on snarky responce.)
Time for Milk. (This precedes the milk mustasche ads by a long time.)
Anything Can Happen When You've Got All the Time in the World.

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

Another trip around the sun
Pray light savings time
time to kill today
dog years
one day closer to death
first time for everything
Every year is getting shorter
never seem to find the time
set your clocks for one second = ten years and live forever!
I never got the hang of Wednesdays
time's UP!

"No one is innocent, citizen. We are merely here to determine the level of your guilt."
- Judge Dredd

I might be getting in trouble with the commerce police here, but
am just trying to gather interest at this point. Would people pay
for a subjective-time iPhone app (all proceeds going toward
future art)?. Would $1, $2, $5 be acceptable?

j_cavera wrote:I might be getting in trouble with the commerce police here, but
am just trying to gather interest at this point. Would people pay
for a subjective-time iPhone app (all proceeds going toward
future art)?. Would $1, $2, $5 be acceptable?

Some snark expected, but do give an opinion as well. Thx.

- Jim

Well Jim, since most of the people here try to bring their art to the playa in whatever form or shape they can, why not make this your gift to the community and call it a wash?

The art is the gift to the community, but I'm not sufficiently wealthy
enough to do everything I'd like to on my own. The support I've
gotten thus far has been wonderful, and I'll be able to bring a (slightly
smaller than desired) project to the community this year, whereas
even that was in question just a few short months ago (thanks to
Elizabeth, Richard, Natalie and my other "patrons").

I'm not talking about needing to sell something in order to bring a
project. The subjective time clock is coming to the playa no matter
what! Even if it's me standing on a platform, wearing a painted box
and shouting the time every couple of minutes (Ok, that ain't gonna
happen)!

It's more like "fundraising brainstorming" at this point. If I had talent
as a DJ, I could host a party like many others do and the cover charge
could go into an art fund. Hell, if I were an actual artist, I could sell
a painting or something! But I'm an under-employed engineer, so I
do what I can.

I don't mean to sound mean... I do get what you're saying and totally
agree. But that damned "reality" stuff keeps intruding on my art
career dreams!